Proceedings of a conference held at Yale University, from July 28 to August 2, 1991 in honor of Roy L. Adler.

Includes bibliographical references.

The torus and the disk ; On the work of Roy Adler in ergodic theory and dynamical systems ; The impact of Roy Adler's work on symbolic dynamics and applications to data storage (or "The Roy Adler story, Part II") ; LR conjugacies of shifts of finite type are uniquely so ; A polynomialtime algorithm for deciding the forcing relation on cyclic permutations ; Fully positive topological entropy and topological mixing ; The stochastic shift equivalence conjecture is false ; Predictions with automata ; Common closing extensions and finitary regular isomorphism for synchronized systems ; Covers for coded systems ; umbers and beta ransformations ; Quasisymmetric conjugacies for some onedimensional maps inducing expansion ; A monotonicity property in onedimensional dynamics ; Finiteness of conjugacy classes of restricted block upper triangular matrices ; Polynomials with a positive power ; Spectral radii of primitive integral companion matrices and log concave polynomials ; Selfreplicating tilings ; Markov subgroups of \bf Z2\bf Z)^\bf Z^2 ; On the dimension of some graphs ; Synchronizing prefix codes and automata and the road coloring problem ; A zero entropy, mixing of all orders tiling system ; A cocycle equation for shifts ; In general a degree two map is an automorphism ; bf Z^n versus bf Z actions for systems of finite type ; Principal vectors of commuting block maps ; On the recurrence of countable topological Markov chains ; Substitutions, adic transformations, and betaexpansions ; Finitary isomorphism of ependent processes ; Constanttoone factor maps and dimension groups ; Faces of Markov chains and matrices of polynomials ; Classification of subshifts of finite type revisited ; Strong shift equivalence of matrices in rm GL(2,\bf Z) Roy L Adler ; Benjamin Weiss ; Brian Marcus ; Jonathan Ashley ; Chris Bernhardt and Ethan M Coven ; F Blanchard ; Mike Boyle ; Annie Broglio and Pierre Liardet ; Doris Fiebig ; Doris Fiebig and UlfRainer Fiebig ; Leopold Flatto ; M Jakobson ; JeanMarc Gambaudo and Charles Tresser ; David Handelman ; David Handelman ; David Handelman ; Richard Kenyon ; Bruce Kitchens and Klaus Schmidt ; Francois Ledrappier ; Dominique Perrin and MarcelPaul Schutzenberger ; Shahar Mozes ; William Parry ; William Parry ; Charles Radin ; Frank Rhodes ; Ibrahim A Salama ; Boris Solomyak ; Meir Smorodinsky ; Paul Trow ; Selim Tuncel ; J B Wagoner ; R F Williams